Modern Christianity is increasingly drenched in conditional loyalty. Believers speak of covenant, yet their hearts negotiate like traders in a market. Worship is no longer a posture of surrender—it has become a platform for demands. “If You heal me, I’ll testify. If You prosper me, I’ll serve You.” The altar has become an office of transactions, not transformation. And when the expected material results delay, they grow bitter. Their faith fractures. They curse God in the dark while lifting hands in church.
Many are quietly abandoning the faith, not because God failed—but because they entered the relationship in haste, hoping for wealth and breakthrough without carrying the cross. They mistook God for a cash dispenser. And when the “alert” doesn’t drop, they conclude He is wicked. These are the ones who once shouted “Amen!” to holiness, who promised on Sunday morning to keep their bodies sacred, only to roll back into fornication before evening. Their lips sing covenant; their limbs break it.
Even more startling is the rise of dual worship—those blessed by God in one area, yet seeking a native doctor for protection in another. What is this spiritual adultery? How does one receive from Christ and then consult a shrine to preserve it? This is not ignorance—it is betrayal. The God who opened the door is strong enough to keep it open. Yet some now insult Heaven by trusting charms to guard what grace provided. They baptize themselves in confusion, kissing the Cross in public but bowing to idols in private.
Our forefathers who walked with God may not have had cars, but they had character. They knew that a covenant was sacred. In Igala thought, “Olu ada todu ugbalu tane kone gba ogba ebo n”— the sun does not set on a promise made to the gods. Today, however, believers make solemn vows to live upright lives, only to break them for fleeting pleasure. We are witnessing a mass exodus—not just from church buildings, but from truth. We have turned God into a helper, not a ruler; a sponsor, not a Saviour. Even some christian mothers are sponsoring their children to engage in blood money rituals.
True covenant demands constancy, even in discomfort. Apostle Paul suffered hunger, beatings, prisons—yet he stood. He understood that covenant doesn’t expire in crisis. Bishop Oyedepo once declared, “Even if He doesn’t bless me again, I will still serve Him.” This is the spirit modern believers must recover. We must move from material obsession to eternal orientation. We must stop dragging God to court every time He delays our desired miracle.
Covenant transforms us before it rewards us. It is not a spiritual lottery ticket. As Evangelist Yinka Yusuf rightly said, “True faith begins when answers are delayed.” Faith isn’t proven on the mountain top, but in the valley. Yet many now treat God like an experiment—one failed test, and they defect. They chase quick riches, forget righteousness, and blame God for results their impatience ruined.
Until we repent of this strange fire—this betrayal dressed in devotion—we will keep raising a generation of spiritual gamblers. God is not mocked. His covenant is not a contract with clauses and loopholes. It is a binding call to trust, love, obey, and endure. Tear the contract. Return to the altar. Come not for what He gives—but for who He is.
– Inah Boniface Ocholi writes from Ayah – Igalamela/Odolu LGA, Kogi state.
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